Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1887 — County Correspondence. [ARTICLE]

County Correspondence.

irj?.>T JORDA N ITEMS. * Schools are commencing. Hay pressers are at work again. Corn liuskers are commencing their work. Airs. Minnie Sage started for her hom,e in Kansas, Wednesday Oct., sth. Mr. Charles jStkndish and Miss Lillie Swartz were married Oct., sth, at the home of the bride’s parents. A Temperance meeting was held at .Union school libuse Saturday evening Oct. Ist. and the Sabbath following rtlutfh to the pleasure and interest of the pe'dple of the place. The meeting was conducted by Mrs. Carrie Clark of Rensselaer, who also organized a AY. C. T. U. Tattler. FROM WALKER. S £ AA 7 heat all sowed and looking well. J. F. Pettit and Samuel Stockwell are on the sick list. Wm. McNiel and family have returned from Nebraska. Theft report of the AVest is favorable. Horace Daniels has sold Ills place to a man frotn Porter county and expects to break up house keeping. Meeting at Center Sunday evening, by liev. Thorn. -Mr. is preparing to build a new houfle. George and Henry Meyers have returned home from the West. They don’t want any more of it. Mrs. A. Miller and her daughter, Alice Osten, have been visiting relatives aud friends in Illinois, but are now at home. The Dunkards will hold their soup meeting the 13th, All are invited to attend. Humming Bird. -V ‘from wueatiield. Jas. Noier is visiting relatives at Cloverdale Indiana. Jas. B. Graham has moved into his new residence. A The AVheatfield school will commence Octl 17.—With Rosa Grube as teacher. A protracted meeting is being held at AVheatfield Center —The Rev. More—-Pastor. Miss Louisa Grube of Lafayette is visiting with her parents in Wheatfield township. The frequent rains of late have created quite a calm among the hay dealers and hay pressers in this section. The train running on the C. & J. 0. It. R. so far, has been but of iitttG Tatnc to cmrdown as itneither carries mail or on the northern extension of the road. School kooks and stationery, the best and cheapest in the land to to be found at the Post? Office at AAdieatfield. Call and be convinced of this fact. S. D. Clark. Mesdames Jennie and Minnie MoCabe of Kansas City Mo., are visiting at tlieir father’s, James "Cason. They have been called here mainly io see their brother AVm. Cason, who is very low with consumption: Wm. McNeal, a former merchant of the town who moved to Nebraska about a yeah ago, with the intention of making his future home in that state, lias returned" with his family, and we doubt not that he thinks there are worse places than northern Jasper. ~ Mr. Albert Brooks, the black-smifch-of the town, is just completing a dwelling near the Catholic church. He will move his family soon from DeMotte, and thenceforth can give the people of this place and surroundings much more of his time and labor which will give the people better satisfaction.

Adrift. FAZROhcS ITEMS. Who said Fair Oaks was dead? The weather is flue , and , work plenty. R. W. Marshall spent Sunday night in town, and took the moinntg train for Kentland where he i 3 at lending couit. The addition to the Wales house is nearing completion. It is by far the best bujlding in the town, and its proprietor does a rushing business. * The Pattee saloon Duildjngjnow owned by Davison & Mallatt is being refitted for Burgess Dillon, -who intends to start a hotel and restaurant. M. F. Johnson & Son, is the name of a new firm which has just opened up a grocery store and meat market fit Moifit & Briugle’s - -

old stand. AVe wish them success. Claus Graves was in town Monday selecting a place to erect a saloon building. He intends to commence building immediately, he comes from AVheatfield where he hafs been in the saloon business for some time. , Hay makers Jiave just finished making hayy and the pressers are at work. * There are upwards of a thousand tons to press in this neighborhood, and the presses will be kept busy for some time. The much talked of railroad is a setled fact. The line has been surveyed, resuryeyedand tile grade stakes set to within ten miles of this place aud the surveyors are still at work. There are 40,000 lies piled up in the yards and more being unloaded every day. Ton men are kept busy unloading material for the new road. There have bean several contractors over the line preparatory to making bids on the work that is to be let in the near future. The road is expected to be finished before spring. Bertie. REM ISO TOE ITEMS. It will doubtless interest many of your readers to learn that Rev. AV. H. Vance, a former pastor of the M. E. Church iu this place, has been sent by his conference to the thriving city of Crete, Neb. Miss Della Cotton made a short visit with friends in Remington, last Saturday. It is rumored that Miss Cotton will soon become a permanent resident of Chicago. Traugh & Co. had the misfortune to lose the~*;valttable yofttagmare Dakota, last ‘Sunday. We regret lo 'state that Mks. Beasley, wild h&s been sick so long, is s£iH ift a dangerous ccffidition, in ffcct, there is but little hope of her recovery. The oldest daughter, Minnie, who is suffering with the same disease —typhoid feVer —is slowly getting better. - Several of our citizens visited Chicago last week, among whom Were Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Stiller, fc. H. AV. Snyder, Mr. and Mrs. Howard aM others. Mrs. O. P. T&bor, Mrfe. A. A. Stearns and MVs. Samuel Babb will visit the metropolis of the northwest this ‘Week. Tfte new bank building now in process of construction will be 1& by 40 feet, two stories in height. The lower floor will be headquarters for the Bank of Remington, under the able management of Mr. Robert Parker, and the upper floor will be fitted up and occupied as office and reception rooms by Dr. S. C. Maxwell. The building will be of brick. After a struggle of several weeks with typhoid fever, Mr. Morey is again able to resume his work and j pi ace am< >n“ i He will- beein teaching next Monday. Hartley Church, who has been j sick for the past three weeks', is i getting better. —^ Rr WING TONI AN.